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GATE.

(Application filed Apr. 18, 1898.)

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GATE. (Application filed Apr. 18, 1898.)

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PROSPER OOUPAL, OF BOURBONNAIS, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH L. LECLAIRE AND PETER LEGRIS, OF SAME PLACE.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 607,682, dated July 19, 1898.

Application filed April 18, 1898. Serial No. 678,008. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern: The gate 13 may be of any suitable or ap- Be it known that I, PROSPER OOUPAL, of proved construction; but the thickness of the Bourbonnais, in the county of Kankakee and gate should be such that the gate may readily State of Illinois, have invented a new and slide between the intermediate uprights 11. 55 useful Improvement in Gates, of which the The body portion 19 of the gate when opened following is a full, clear, and exact descripis adapted to be located between the intertion. mediate uprights 11 and the end uprights 13, The object of the invention is to construct and the end posts 20 of the gate are provided a gate, especially a farm-gate, of the sliding with bearings 20 at their upper ends, while 60 type in an exceedingly simple, durable, and in each bearing a grooved pulley or roller economic manner and to provide a means is journaled, adapted to rest and travel upon whereby the gate may be opened or closed the rod 15, as is particularly shown in Figs. from either side by persons on horseback or 1 and 3. Slats 18 are shown extending from in vehicles and whereby the gate may also the uprights 11 to the uprights 13 at one side 6 5 I5 be opened or closed from either side by peof the structure; but the slats may be duplidestrians. cated at the other side of the structure, if de- The invention consists in the novel consired. struction and combination of the several A link 21, preferably of. U construction, is parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, pivoted at its curved end by a suitable bolt 70 20 and pointed out in the claims. 22 upon the upper cross-bar 10 of the frame Reference is to be had to the accompanying about centrally between the intermediate updrawings, forming a part of this specification, rights and the rear upright 13. The lower in which similar characters of reference indiextremities of the said link are carried one cate corresponding parts in all the figures. at each side of the rear end post 20, and the 7 5 Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved lower ends of the pivoted link are provided gate. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the with longitudinal slots 23, through which. line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse secslots, bolts, or pins 21 areloosely passed and tion on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. secured to the rear gate-post, as is especially The frame A in which the gate is mounted shown in Figs. 1 and 2. I 80 0 consists of two end posts 12 and 13 and par A latch-bar 25, which is also an operatingallel and spaced intermediate posts 11, the bar, is pivoted to the link 21 near its upper end posts and intermediate posts being 0011- end. The latch or operating bar extends benected by an upper cross-bar 10, and at the tween the uprights l1 and a point near the top of the structure suitable braces 14 are forward end upright 12, preferably parallel 85 3 5 located. A supporting-rod 15 is provided for with the supporting-rod 15. At the free end the gate, which supporting-rod is readily reof the latch or operating bar 25 a latch-head movable from the frame. One end of the sup- 26 is pivoted, one end whereof extends up be porting-rod 15 enters a recess in the end post yond the upper face of the bar 25, as shown 12 of the frame, while the opposite end passes in Fig. 1, the latch-head being adapted to en- 0 through an aperture made in the end post 13. ter a recess 26, made in the upright 12, as The rod 15 at its center rests upon a crossillustrated in Fig.2. The latch 26, when the bar 16, which extends through the central or gate is closed, automatically engages with a intermediate uprights 11, and the rod 15 is keeper 28, which is fulcrumed upon the forprevented from slipping from its bearings by ward end upright 12 of the frame, the keeper 5 means of abutton 17 or its equivalent, pivoted being usually of U shape, as shown in Fig. on the upright 13 and covering the outer end 2, the bow-section of the keeper facing the of the opening in such upright through which latch, while its extremities are connected with the rod passes. A sill 12 is provided for the a weight 29, which will hold the keeper in end upright 12, and a like sill 13 is furnished position for engagement with the latch-head. I00 the opposite end upright 13, While the inter- The keeper maybe drawn downward and remediate uprights 11 rest upon a sill 11. leased from engagement with the latch-head ing suspended from the opposite rod.

shown in Fig. 3, and in each end of the tubular cross-bar a rod 32 is adjustably secured, usually through the medium of set-screws 33, which are also utilized to connect a supportin g-bracket 34 with the tubular cross-bar. A block is located at each side of the tubular cross-bar, being secured to the upper beam 10 of the frame. These blocks are designated, respectively, as 35 and 36. Beneath the block 36 two pulleys 37 and 38 are journaled, and corresponding pulleys 39 and 40 are journaled beneath the block 35. Ordinarily the pivots of the said pulleys extend into the blocks and into stirrups 41, attached to the blocks, or the pulleys may be contained within the stirrups only, if desired.

A double block 42 is suspended from one of the rods 32, a corresponding pulley 43 be- Two chains 44 and 44 are attached to the up wardly-extending portion of the latch-head 26 at a point above the latch-bar 25. The chain 44 is carried around the pulley 38 and down over the pulley in the block 43, while the chain 44 is carried over the pulley 37 and in a reverse direction to the chain 44 over the pulley in the block 42, as shown in Fig. 2. Two other chains 46 and 46 are attached to the latch-bar 25 at a point between the blocks 35 and the rear end of the latch-bar. The chain 46 is carried over the pulley 39 substantially parallel with the chain 44 and down over the pulley in the block 43, the chain 46 being carried around the pulley 40 substantially parallel with the chain 44 and downward over the pulley in the block 42. Each chain 44 and 44? is provided with an adjustable handle at its lower end, the handles acting also in the capacity of weights, and similar handles 48 are provided for the lower extremities of the chains 46 and 46.

In operation when the gate is to be opened *bya pedestrian,under the construction shown in Fig. 1, it is simply necessary to draw the ropes or chains 30 downward, releasing the latch-head from its keeper, whereupon the gate may be pushed open byhand and closed in like manner at the opposite side. When the gate is to be opened by a person on horseback or in a vehicle, the chain 44, for example, is drawn downward, which will disengage the latch-head 26 from the keeper 28 and by carrying the latch bar reauward cause the gate to travel in the same direction and open. After the vehicle has passed through the gateopening the chain 46, for example, is drawn- Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, with a frame, a track carried by the frame, and a gate suspended from and mounted to slide on the said track, of an arm pivotally connected with the rear end post of the gate and with the upper portion of the frame, a latch-bar pivoted to the said arm, alatch-head pivoted upon the latchbar, a keeper for the latch-head carried by the frame, pulley-blocks located at opposite sides of the frame, and chains attached to the latch-head, being carried each through a pulley-block, and other chains attached to the latch-bar at the rear of the pulley-blocks, the latter chains being likewise carried in opposite directions through the pulley-blocks, for the purpose set forth.

2. In a gate, the combination, with a frame, a track carried by the said frame, a gate having'a roller-support on the said track, and an arm pivoted to the frame at an upper point and to the rear portion of the said gate, of a latch-bar pivoted to the said arm, extending above the track, a latch-head pivoted in the latch-bar, a keeper for the latch-head carried by the frame, a supporting-bar located above the central portion of the gate when the gate is closed, the said supporting-bar being provided with pulley-blocks at its ends, chains attached to the latch-head, being adapted to raise the same from its keeper, which chains are carried in opposite directions through opposite pulley-blocks, and chains attached tothe latch-bar at the rear of the supporting-arm, which chains are carried in opposite directions likewise through the said pulleyblocks, for the purpose set forth.

3. In a gate, the combination, with a frame, a weighted keeper pivoted to the said frame, means for operating the keeper against the action of the weight, a track carried by the frame, a gate suspended from the said track, having a roller bearing thereon, and a link pivoted to the upper portion of the frame at a point to the rear of the gate when the gate is closed, the lower ends of the said link being provided with slots, and pins passed through the slots into the rear post of the gate, of a latch-bar pivoted to the said link, extending parallel with the track and over the gate when in its closed position, a latch-head pivoted in the forward end portion of the latch-bar, being adapted for engagement with said keeper, adjustable supports extending beyond opposite sides of the frame at a point above the center of the gate when the gate is closed, and double pulley-blocks carried by the said supports near their outer ends,

guidepulleys located at opposite sides of the over adjacent guide-pulleys and through 0psaid supports, chains connected with the posite pulley-blocks, for the purpose set forth. latch-head and assed over adjacent guidehis pulleys, one chai n being carried through each 7 PROSPER X COUPAL' of the pulley-blocks, and chains secured to Vitnesses;

the latch-bar at a point to the rear of the sup- WM FRASER porting-arms, the latter chains being passed 1' LEGRIS:

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